How Big Tech Took Control of Reality

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The internet promised freedom. But has it delivered?

When the World Wide Web launched, it promised a borderless world of knowledge, connection and freedom.

More than three decades later, a handful of tech giants control vast parts of our digital lives—shaping what we see, what we remember, and even how we think—while the internet has become an engine of censorship and surveillance.

This week on The Tea, we're joined by the woman rewriting the history of the internet. Mindy Seu is a technologist, UCLA associate professor, and the author of “A Sexual History of the Internet”. She’s been tracking what the tech giants are scrubbing. Together, we ask the questions Big Tech would rather you didn't: Who decides what survives online? And is it still possible to reclaim the internet?

Also in the show:

⚡ The hidden history of the internet—from women, artists and activists erased from the story

⚡ Open source, local networks & the fight to reclaim the web

⚡ Sex, censorship & who gets erased online

⚡ The Epstein files & the myth of the "forever internet"

⚡ ChatGPT, AI & the danger of “yes men”

⚡ Peter Thiel’s “Praxis” and Big Tech’s attempt to replace democracy